Thursday, March 16, 2017

Strict Gun Control Powerless as Attacker Opens Fire on High School in France

France’s strict gun controls–including universal background checks,
licensing requirements, and all-out bans on whole categories of
guns–proved impotent as a 17-year-old suspect opened fired on a high
school in Grasse.

The suspect is under arrest.The Local
reports that “the headteacher” at the Alexis de Tocqueville high school
was targeted in the attack. The suspect was carrying “a revolver, a
pistol, a hunting rifle and two grenades.” CNN’s
French affiliate BFMTV reports the attack occurred at the around
lunchtime. A French Interior Ministry spokesman indicated “eight people
have been injured, including those with shock.”
Reports on the various firearms possessed during the attack remind
the world that France’s gun laws–which are described as “restrictive” by
the University of Sydney’s GunPolicy.org–proved powerless again to stop a determined attacker.
Consider this–A Review of French Gun Laws
(2012) shows that “ownership of fully automatic firearms [is
prohibited] for civilians” in France, yet fully automatic weapons were
the very kind used in the Charlie Hebdo attack. And when it
comes to semi-automatic firearms, those who wish to own them have to go
through the very kind of expanded background checks that the Democrat
Party and other gun control proponents would like to institute in the
U.S.
Moreover, in France such checks entail acquiring and maintaining “an
active shooting club [membership]” and going to the range “at least
three times a year.” They also include “seeing a doctor every year,” who
declares one “physically and mentally capable of owning a firearm,” and
filling out various pieces of paperwork as well.
Yet a 17-year-old attacker had “a revolver, a pistol, a
hunting rifle, and two grenades” on his person at the high school in
Grasse.
The report of “grenades” is a reminder that all the gun control in
the world–even complete confiscation of every firearm ever made–would
not stop a determined attacker; this is because determined attackers
find other weapons–like trucks in Nice or, in this case, grenades–and
are prepared to use those weapons against unarmed, defenseless
civilians.
It is worth noting that Quebec also has “restrictive” gun controls, yet Reuters
reported that “six people were killed and eight wounded when [a gunman]
opened fire” on January 29, 2017. Munich has “restrictive” gun controls
too, yet these controls were not hindrance to the gunman who opened
fire and killed nine on July 22, 2016. Denmark has “restrictive” gun controls similar to those in France, Quebec, and Germany, yet these controls did not prevent a terrorist from opening fire, killing two civilians and wounding five police officers on February 14, 2015.
And never forget the 130 who were gunned down in cold blood in Paris on November 13, 2015.
Gun control keeps the innocent unarmed while criminals and terrorists retain access to firearms. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/16/strict-gun-control-powerless-as-attacker-opens-fire-on-high-school-in-france/